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Other Medical Technologists and Technicians

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  • Job description
  • Advancement and mobility
  • Hourly wage
  • Job prospects for 2021-2025
  • Sectors of activity
  • Training and requirements
  • Main skills and characteristics
  • Personality profiles (RIASEC)
  • Additional information

Job description

Pharmacy Technical Assistants assist Pharmacists in their duties.

Dietary Technicians assist dieticians and nutritionists in food service operations.

Ocularists design, manufacture, and fit ocular prostheses.

Prosthetics and Orthotics Technologists and Technicians make, fit, and repair prosthetic and orthotic devices.

Environment

  • Controlled ambient temperature
  • Equipment, machinery, tools

Main tasks

Pharmacy Technical Assistants

  • Assist pharmacists with drug inventory and records.
  • Verify the accuracy of information recorded on prescriptions.
  • Enter customer information into databases.
  • Prepare medications and mix oral solutions, ointments, and creams.
  • Produce invoices for insurance.
  • Assist with scheduling and workflow planning as required.

Dietary Technicians

  • Assist dieticians or nutritionists in planning and supervising food service operations.
  • Assist in the planning of menus and diets.
  • Participate in the supervision of staff that prepares and serves food.
  • Help customers complete their menu.
  • Collaborate in research on food, nutrition, and food service systems.

Ocularists

  • Design, manufacture, clean, repair, and fit prosthetic eyes and implants.
  • Paint irises and pupils on prosthetic eyes.
  • Advise customers.
  • Repair and maintain manufacturing and laboratory equipment.
  • Consult ophthalmologists regarding the insertion of ocular prostheses.

Prosthetists, Orthotists, and Prosthetics and Orthotics Technologists and Technicians.

  • Design, manufacture, repair, modify, and adjust prosthetic and orthopaedic devices.
  • Interpret doctor’s orders.
  • Examine and measure clients to develop sketches of devices.
  • Make and modify plaster casts of the area to be fitted with a prosthesis or orthotic.
  • Teach clients how to use and maintain the prosthesis or orthosis.
  • Supervise and direct the activities of other workers in the field.

Advancement and mobility

  • Two years of experience and successful completion of the Canadian Board for Certification of Prosthetists and Orthotists certification exams allow Prosthetics and Orthotics Technicians to become Certified Prosthetists and Orthotists.

Hourly wage

The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2019 to 2021.
Minimum
$14.25
Median
$18.00
Maximum
$27.50

Job prospects for 2021-2025

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Job prospects for 2021-2025

Job prospects

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Very good

All of Québec

Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available

Total jobs for 2020

All of Québec

21,000

All of Québec

na

Gender distribution

All of Québec

Not available.
88.1% Female
11.9% Male

Not available.
  • 88.1% Female
  • 11.9% Male

Job types

All of Québec

Not available.
Full time
Part time

Not available.
  • Full time
  • Part time

Yearly wage on 2015

All of Québec

$34,000

All of Québec

Other characteristics

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

All of Québec

  • Non traditional for men
  • None

Sectors of activity

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    72% of jobs
  2. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    23% of jobs
  3. Miscellaneous Manufacturing
    NAICS 339
    2% of jobs
  4. Petroleum, Coal and Chemical Manufacturing
    NAICS 324, 325
    1% of jobs
  5. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    0% of jobs
  6. Others
    2% of jobs

All of Québec

Not available.
  1. Retail Trade
    NAICS 44, 45
    72% of jobs
  2. Health Care
    NAICS 621, 622, 623
    23% of jobs
  3. Miscellaneous Manufacturing
    NAICS 339
    2% of jobs
  4. Petroleum, Coal and Chemical Manufacturing
    NAICS 324, 325
    1% of jobs
  5. Wholesale Trade
    NAICS 41
    0% of jobs
  6. Others
    2% of jobs

Training and requirements

Formation

Most training programs are offered in French only.

Secondary

DVS in assistance technique en pharmacie This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 5341

Placement rate: 86.8%

5.4% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
DVS in pharmacy Technical Assistance This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 5841

Placement rate: 70.7%

18.2% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation

College

DCS in orthèses, prothèses et soins orthopédiques This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 144F0

Placement rate: 90%

6.7% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
DCS in techniques de diététique This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 120A0

Placement rate: 72.7%

22.3% of graduates pursue further studies

More on graduates’ employment situation
DCS in techniques de pharmacie (Nouveau programme) This hyperlink will open in a new window.
Code : 165A0

Also required

Prosthetists and Orthotists

  • Supervised practical training.
  • Membership in the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec (OTPQ [Quebec Order of Professional Technologists]) for Technologists in this field to practise certain reserved activities.

Sometimes required

  • Knowledge of the existing computerized system may be required or an asset
  • A Class 5 driver’s licence and a car may be required or an asset.

Ocularists

  • A certificate from the National Examining Board of Ocularists is usually required.

Prosthetics and Orthotics Technicians

  • Membership in the Association des orthésistes et prothésistes du Québec (AOPQ) may be required.

Main skills and characteristics

Skills

  • Data collection
  • Active listening
  • Quality control analysis
  • Critical thought
  • Reading comprehension
  • Troubleshooting
  • Oral expression
  • Social perception
  • Monitoring operations
  • Solving complex problems
  • Information processing
  • Result evaluation
  • Judgment and decision-making
  • Service oriented
  • Active learning
  • Coordination
  • Teaching
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Written expression
  • Time management
  • Repair
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Abilities

  • Oral comprehension
  • Awareness of issues
  • Near vision
  • Verbal skills
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Hand-arm stability
  • Visualization
  • Digital dexterity
  • Information organization
  • Memorization
  • Speech clarity
  • Manual dexterity
  • Inductive reasoning
  • Speech recognition
  • Limb coordination
  • Control accuracy
  • Written comprehension
  • Selective attention
  • Classification
  • Written expression
  • Core strength
  • Originality
  • Depth perception
  • Colour perception and distinction
  • Hearing sensitivity
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Knowledge and attributes

  • Knowledge of the French language
  • Autonomy
  • Knowledge of customer and personalized services
  • Capacity to work in a team
  • Versatility
  • Attention to detail
  • Capacity to be discrete
  • Vitality
  • Learning speed
  • Knowledge of medicine or dentistry

Interests

  • Assist and advise
  • Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
  • Conduct tests and trials, control processes
  • Assist or care for people

Personality profiles (RIASEC)

Realistic
People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Artistic
People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
Social
People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Additional information

Official name of the NOC 3219

Other medical technologists and technicians (except dental health)

Job titles

  • Orthotist-prosthetist
  • Pharmacy technical assistant
  • Certified orthotist (co)
  • Dietary technician
  • Prosthetist assistant
  • Surgical fitter
  • Surgical appliance fitter
  • Ocularist apprentice
  • Orthopedic appliance assembler
  • Prosthetic assistant
  • Certified pedorthist (c ped)
  • Pedorthist
  • Orthotic corset maker
  • Artificial limb maker
  • Artificial eye maker
  • Brace maker
  • Artificial limb finisher
  • Orthopedic mechanic
  • Aeromedical instructor
  • Artificial limb assembler
  • Ocularist
  • Orthotist
  • Prosthetist
  • Certified prosthetist
  • Prosthetist-orthotist
  • Certified prosthetist-orthotist (cpo)
  • Ocularist technician
  • Registered orthotic technician (r.t.o.)
  • Orthotic technician
  • Registered prosthetic and orthotic technician (r.t.p.o.)
  • Registered prosthetic technician (r.t.p.)
  • Prosthetic technician
  • Prosthetic-orthotic technician
  • Food and nutrition technician - dietetics
  • Kidney dialysis technician
  • Hemodialysis technician
  • Aviation medicine technician
  • Pharmacy technician
  • Kidney dialysis technologist
  • Dietary technologist
  • Hemodialysis technologist
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Skill type

Health

Related occupations

  • Medical laboratory technologists
  • Other assisting occupations in support of health services
  • Other technical occupations in therapy and assessment

See also

  • Glossary (PDF 229 Kb)
  • Québec emploi This hyperlink will open in a new window.

Last update: July 4, 2022

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